Health budget 2022 spends a little on favoured interest groups but misses a chance for real reform
- Written by: Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
Luke Jones/UnsplashThe 2022 budget is an election-year budget. So stakeholders have been pushing their wheelbarrows up the hill to Parliament House to lobby for extra largesse to flow their way.
But while plenty of taxpayers’ money was allocated this year to give an ailing government the greatest possible advantage in the upcoming election,...